Urban rehabilitation, regeneration and renewal have intermittently been identified within federal (as well as state) policy circles as central to the functioning of Australian cities since at least the 1940s. This paper adds to existing knowledge by exploring the role of the Federal Department of Urban and Regional Development (DURD) in the 1970s in facilitating...

The 2006 Census provides an opportunity to view a snapshot of Sydney in its current state of flux. This report presents the first detailed suburb-by-suburb analysis of social changes in Sydney between 2001 and 2006. A major innovation for the 2006 Census is the ability to chart changes at the suburb level between the two...